Re: pattern matching question - please help

2005-06-19 Thread MEENA SELVAM
Hi Chris, Thanks for your detailed email and for your time. I think my second email crossed your email. The book I read on Perl did not mention anything about first and second half, and that didnt explain, me that we were replacing all upsto last / by nothing. I thought it is replacing with / itsel

Re: pattern matching question - please help

2005-06-19 Thread Chris Devers
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, MEENA SELVAM wrote: > can anyone please explain? See `perldoc perlre`, or `man perlre`, or a book like _Learning Perl_ or _Mastering Regular Expressions_ for this kind of thing. It's really an introductory question that any decent introductory text should be able to cover

Re: pattern matching question - please help

2005-06-19 Thread MEENA SELVAM
Hi , in $prog =~ s/^.*\///; is it trying to substitute all characters until the last / within $prog? meena --- MEENA SELVAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > can anyone please explain? > > In the following code snippet, what is the meaning > of > the pattern match > s/^.*\/// > > $prog = $

pattern matching question - please help

2005-06-19 Thread MEENA SELVAM
Hi, can anyone please explain? In the following code snippet, what is the meaning of the pattern match s/^.*\/// $prog = $0; $prog =~ s/^.*\/// i did not get details when i searched in google thanks, meena Yahoo! Sports R